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Youth Radio’s Asha Richardson has never had $5,000 a year to spend at the mall, but that’s the average amount teens spend per year on retail, or at least it was. A new study from Piper Jaffray says teen spending is down 14 percent this year. This tight two-minute feature reports on how many young people are changing their spend-happy tune.
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INTRO:Teen spending averages 125 billion dollars a year, but as Asha Richardson reports, 2009 is likely to be a different story.
OUTRO:This piece was produced by Asha Richardson for Youth Radio.
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Hans Anderson
Posted on June 10, 2009 at 09:11 PM | Permalink
Nice!
The voices sound young... "we" -- "my friend" -- "my school" -- easy even for a casual listener to know this is a younger producer, but you wouldn't know unless told. This piece is well-produced, informative and from an almost insider angle.